Binding books.



BINDIN OOOOO S.

' APPI; IIII ION FILED APB ZB 1910. BEN E W E D P BB. 3, 1911. I 1,001,245, v Patented Aug. 22, 1911,

HOBAGE P. BROWN, 0F EMERYVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

BINDING BOOKS.

Application filed April as, 1910, Serial No. 557,697.

nomically binding pamphlets and books,

such as telephone books, like. I

A common method is to staple or stitch the leaves together, and thenbind or cover the book by gluing a piece of heavy paper to the back.vVhere a book is used considerably, 'or subjected to any'rough usage,the cover comes ofi, or loosens, or becomes tornv at the corners alongthe back edge, and soon presents a frayed and ragged appearance, andsooner or later the cover is torn off.

By my method I provide a simple, practical substitute for gluing andstitch the cover on at the sametime the pad is stitched,

magazines, and the thus saving one operation and one handling of thebook as over the old method where it was first necessary to-stitch thepad and then glue on the cover. Sometimes in addition to this the gluedcover was stitched too, but

even then the cover was not secured on as well as by my method.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combinationof parts as hereinafter more fully described and.

claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in whichigure 1is a perspective View partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a section of areceipt book.

A represents a 'pad or pile of leaves constituting the book to be bound.

2 is the cover, which maybe of any suitable material with a flexibleback portion capable of being infolded one or more times with the endsof the leaves, as shown at 3. I

4 represents the staples or stitching passed through the cover 2 and padA; the pad and Specification of Letters Patent.

sert fillers between the leaves.

Patented Aug. 22, 1911. I Renewed February 3, 1911. Serial No. 606,443.

the cover being bound at the same time and by the single securing means4:;

The chief feature of the invention is the forming of the infoldedportions 3 of the cover, and their insertion into the back of .the book.If the book is a thin one a single infold would sufiic e; if the book isthicker,

there would usually be two of these infolds, near the top and bottom ofthe pad, but with a sufficient amount of the ends of the leaves,

represented at 5, embraced between an in fold 3 and a top or bottomcover so as to prevent the cover from being broken, at 6,

'. when bent over the stub and stitched. This method of" infolded coveris particularly useful 1n making up scrap books or stub receipt. books,or wherever it is desired to inshown in Fig. 2, the cover is providedwith an infold 3, between the leaves A, the double thickness of theinfolded part of the cover providing the necessary space to accommodatethe'cards or papers which are inserted in between the leaves and bookfrom bulging when filled.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to securebyLetters-Patent, is:

1. The combination with the leaves, of a cover'having'a flexible backportion, said back'portion infolded with the ends of the leaves, andsecuring means passed through the leaves and said infolded portion.

2. The combination with the leaves, of a cover therefor, said coverhaving'a back portion, said back port-ion having a folded part insertedfrom the back in between the leaves,

and securing means passing through the cover, ends of the leaves, andsaid infolded part of said back-portion.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

HORACE P. BROWN.

Witnesses S. H, MASTERS, W. W. WHITE.

Thus, as I permitting the

